While employee retention is always a top priority, operating in a pandemic intensifies the urgency to hire and maintain competent, committed staff. Since the first three months of employment are particularly...
From compliance personnel to compliance tech
By
Jesse Wood
Dec 23, 2016
Business process management systems are playing a shining new role in healthcare situations, especially for compliance officers and personnel.
Meeting the growing technology requirements of today’s senior living facilities
By
Robert Knox
Nov 25, 2013
Sprawling senior living campuses peppered with multiple storied brick buildings typically have a difficult time maintaining a consistent cell signal from multiple carriers and may not have the bandwidth...
10 things to remember in seniors furnishings
By
Dean Maddalena
Dec 19, 2014
If you’ve been to a recent senior living trade show or picked up a magazine geared toward the industry, you’ve probably seen beautiful, elegant furniture that would look right at home in your...
A new kind of activity calendar strategy for dementia care
By
James Lee
Charles de Vilmorin
Apr 27, 2023
Dementia is not a normal part of aging. These eight words should help anchor and inspire the long-term care and senior living industry’s collective work to change, renew and elevate the ways...
Fortifying the LTC system against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
By
Lorelei Schmidt, MT, and Dolly Greene, RN, CIC
Nov 16, 2015
The scope of the problem may seem overwhelming. But working together as a system across the payer, provider, and services spectrum we must succeed in safeguarding these invaluable tools in the fight against...
Managed care, PDPM challenge providers to choose the right option for therapy management
By
Jill Krueger
Jan 30, 2020
Managed care penetration of the Medicare population is as high 90% and more in many areas of the country, and its growth is certain to accelerate and expand. Post-acute care (PAC) also now has entered...
The Five-Star Quality Rating System’s impact on insurance premiums — and how to address them
By
Ben Newman
Feb 27, 2023
For nearly 15 years, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Five-Star Quality Rating System for long-term care facilities has been a single source of truth for multiple parties. Consumers...
A day in the life of an infection preventionist
By
Buffy Lloyd-Krejci, DrPH, CIC
Jan 30, 2023
When I write or speak about our long-term care industry, I often do just that – refer to “the industry.” Whether it be challenges “the industry” faces, solutions “the industry” needs, or...
MDROs setting up residence: The role of the contaminated environment in long-term care
By
Debra A. Hagberg
Aug 18, 2022
America’s age 65 and older population is expected to nearly double in size in the coming decades, from 49 million in 2016 to 95 million in 2060. With this aging of the population comes the reality of...